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Table 3 Interval time from illness onset to diagnosis of scrub typhus cases

From: Evaluation of scrub typhus diagnosis in China: analysis of nationwide surveillance data from 2006 to 2016

Province/ municipality/ autonomous region

Interval between illness onset and case diagnosis, days (median [IQR])

Deaths(n = 57)

Overall

Primary medical centre

County hospital

City hospital

Guangdong (n = 25 586)

5 (1–9)

4 (1–8)

5 (2–9)

5 (1–10)

28

Yunnan (n = 20 690)

4 (2–7)

3 (1–5)

5 (2–8)

7 (4–11)

11

Anhui (N = 9737)

5 (2–8)

1 (1–2)

5 (2–7)

6 (2–10)

1

Jiangsu (n = 7127)

5 (2–9)

5 (3–7)

5 (2–9)

7 (2–11)

0

Fujian (n = 7062)

6 (2–10)

5 (2–9)

6 (2–10)

6 (0–11)

7

Shandong (n = 6866)

6 (4–9)

5 (3–7)

6 (4–9)

7 (4–10)

1

Guangxi (n = 5476)

6 (2–10)

4 (1–7)

5 (2–9)

7 (3–11)

5

Jiangxi (n = 3371)

8 (4–13)

5 (2–8)

7 (4–11)

11 (6–17)

1

Sichuan (n = 2508)

6 (3–10)

4 (1–6)

6 (3–9)

10 (6–15.25)

0

Hainan (n = 1541)

5 (2–9)

4 (1–6)

5 (2–8)

8 (4–13)

0

Zhejiang (n = 1135)

5 (0–9)

5 (1–8)

5 (2–9)

1 (0–9)

0

Beijing (n = 759)

5.5 (3.75–8)

-a

5 (3.25–7)

12.5 (3.75–19)

0

Hunan (n = 738)

6 (3–11)

2 (0–4)

5 (2–8)

10 (5–16)

1

Shanxi (n = 342)

6 (4–9)

5 (4–7)

7 (4–11)

0

Henan (n = 249)

6 (2–9)

7.5 (2.5–9.5)

5 (2–8)

8 (4–12)

0

Liaoning (n = 57)

9 (7–14)

8 (6.5–12.5)

10 (7–14)

2 (2–2)

0

Hubei (n = 53)

5 (1.5–9)

4 (1.25–8)

7 (0–11)

1

Guizhou (n = 42)

7 (3–13.25)

4 (3–7)

8 (4–14)

1

Chongqing (n = 38)

3 (0–9)

5 (0.5–10)

2 (0–9)

0

Tianjin (n = 32)

5 (2.25–8.75)

11 (11–11)

5 (1.75–8.25)

0

Heilongjiang (n = 24)

6.5 (5–8.75)

7 (5–9)

0 (0–0)

0

Hebei (n = 11)

8 (3–11)

8 (5–9.5)

7.5 (0–25.5)

0

Overall

5 (2–7)

4 (1–7)

5 (2–8)

6 (2–11)

57

  1. a “-” indicates no data or few data (less than ten cases).